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لەسەر گۆڕێک نوسرابوو
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Nan bide Nandaran,
Deyn bide deyndaran,
Lê rû nede bewaran,
Û dil nede
Neyaran
I don’t know the old Rebbe, proudly standing at the Concentration Camp’s main entrance, under the cynical “Arbeit macht frei” statement. But I know the feeling we share... neveragain!
Giuseppe “Peppino” Impastato (05/01/1948, Cinisi, Palermo, Italy – 09/05/1978, Cinisi, Palermo, Italy) was an Italian anti-mafia activist, journalist, political militant and radio broadcaster, internationally recognized as a symbol of civil resistance against organized crime. He was born into a family connected to Cosa Nostra: his father Luigi Impastato had links to the mafia environment, and a close relative, Cesare Manzella, was a local mafia boss killed in a car bomb attack in 1963. From a very young age Peppino chose open rupture with his family’s criminal milieu, openly rejecting mafia culture and power. This choice caused a deep and painful break with his father and led to his expulsion from the family home, marking a decisive personal and political separation. During his teenage years he embraced left-wing political activism and became involved in socialist and revolutionary movements. In 1965 he founded the magazine L’Idea Socialista and later joined the extra-parliamentary left. His political activity was rooted in everyday reality: he worked alongside peasants, workers, the unemployed and marginalized people, denouncing land expropriations, speculation, corruption and the mafia’s control over local economic life, especially in relation to the expansion of Palermo airport in the Cinisi area. In 1975 he founded the collective “Musica e Cultura”, creating spaces for debate, theatre, music and political education, convinced that culture itself was a weapon against domination. In 1977 he founded Radio Aut, a free, self-managed radio station. Through the program “Onda Pazza”, he publicly exposed the crimes, business interests and political connections of local mafia bosses, directly naming Gaetano Badalamenti, the powerful boss of Cinisi. Using irony, satire and direct language, Peppino dismantled the image of mafia as an untouchable authority and transformed denunciation into collective awareness. In 1978 he ran for the municipal council with Democrazia Proletaria, challenging mafia power not only culturally but also electorally. On the night between 8 and 9 May 1978 he was kidnapped, murdered, and his body was placed on railway tracks and blown up with explosives in an attempt to simulate a terrorist attack or suicide. The goal was to eliminate him and at the same time discredit him. For years the crime was covered up through institutional depistage. Thanks to the relentless struggle of his mother Felicia Bartolotta, his brother Giovanni Impastato and fellow activists, the truth eventually emerged: Peppino Impastato was assassinated by the mafia. In 2002 Gaetano Badalamenti was convicted as the mandator of the murder. Peppino was killed because he broke silence, named names, and turned anti-mafia resistance into public, organized, popular action. He remains a global symbol of courage, freedom of speech, and radical opposition to criminal power.
Lala Lajpat Rai (28/01/1865, Dhudike, Punjab, British India – 17/11/1928, Lahore, Punjab, British India) was one of the most influential figures of early 20th-century Indian nationalism, widely known as “Punjab Kesari” (The Lion of Punjab) and as a member of the Lal–Bal–Pal trio, together with Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal, which represented the more militant wing of the Indian independence movement. He was born into a well-off Punjabi family. His father, Munshi Radha Krishna, was a teacher of Urdu and Persian, and his mother was Gulab Devi. In his personal life he was known for discipline, austerity and an intense sense of civic duty, dedicating his entire existence to the cause of India’s freedom. He received his early education in the Punjab and later studied law at the Government College in Lahore, where he came into contact with patriotic and reformist ideas and was influenced by the Arya Samaj movement, which promoted social reform, education and national regeneration. Although trained as a lawyer, Lajpat Rai soon shifted from legal practice to public and political life, convinced that independence required not only opposition to British rule but also the construction of strong social and educational institutions. He became active in the Indian National Congress and emerged as a prominent leader in the Punjab. During the internal split between moderates and radicals within the Congress, he aligned himself with the more uncompromising faction, rejecting purely gradualist approaches and supporting mass agitation, economic self-reliance (Swadeshi), and the boycott of British goods. His growing influence made him a target of colonial repression, and in 1907 he was deported without trial to Mandalay, Burma, a clear sign that the British authorities considered him a dangerous mobilizer of popular resistance. Alongside political activism, Lajpat Rai was a prolific writer and journalist. Through books, essays and articles he attacked colonial narratives and exposed the structural damage caused by British rule. One of his most famous works, Unhappy India (1928), openly challenged imperial propaganda and defended India’s right to self-determination. In 1921 he founded the Servants of the People Society in Lahore, an organization dedicated to training disciplined social workers and political activists who would serve the nation, reflecting his belief that freedom required educated and ethically committed citizens. In 1928 the British government appointed the Simon Commission, composed entirely of British members and excluding any Indian representation. Lajpat Rai led a massive protest against the Commission in Lahore. During the demonstration, police carried out a brutal lathi charge (baton attack), and he was severely beaten. Although he continued to speak publicly after the assault, his health rapidly deteriorated. He died on 17 November 1928 from complications caused by the injuries. His death was the direct result of colonial police violence and became a powerful symbol of sacrifice in the Indian struggle for independence. Lala Lajpat Rai was killed because he embodied organized, mass-based resistance: an intellectual, educator and leader capable of turning dissent into collective action, something the British Empire deeply feared.
I publish these portraits to keep their names alive.
They were killed for truth, justice and human dignity.
This series is an act of remembrance and resistance: to educate, to refuse indifference, and to remind the world what hatred and injustice really do.
Because hatred and injustice must not have the last word.
The main entrance to Auschwitz II-Birkenau near Brzezinka.
Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), intended the camp to house 50,000 prisoners of war, who would be interned as forced laborers. Plans called for the expansion of the camp first to house 150,000 and eventually as many as 200,000 inmates. An initial contingent of 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Auschwitz I in October 1941, but by March 1942 only 945 were still alive, and these were transferred to Birkenau, where most of them died from disease or starvation by May. By this time Hitler had decided to annihilate the Jewish people, so Birkenau was repurposed as a combination labor camp / extermination camp.
*Photo used as a front cover for Vincente Salvador Tomas Berto's book "Zycie: La luz que iluminó aquel mundo oscuro", (Nov.2015, ASIN: B018RE9HB8).
- "I am delighted to have been able to use that fantastic picture, which at times inspired me to describe the horror of that place" - Vincente Salvador Tomas Berto.
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It would be a failure to not remember Armin Theophil Wegner on such a day in Berlin.
Photo © Hrant Kasparyan
(Do not be limited to the way states write on the nameplate. There are online sources about Armin T. Wegner)
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Proud Kurdish History - The Sumerians from Babylonia
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Proud Kurdish History - The Sumerians from Babylonia
Sumerians Annunaki world first civilized empire ancient kurdish history mesopotamia kurdistan
Misty conditions and a body conditioned for office work. The climb to this vantage point nearly killed me, at one point I had lay prone with feet above heart as the exertion was so great I was feeling rather ill and verging on blacking out... Tis my own fault though for carrying the weight of a 5 year old child on my back on a gradient of 18.75% or 1:533 over 1.6km trying to beat the sun rise, and giving myself 15mins to do it in.
תודה לך הנשיא נצ'ירוואן ברזאני על תמיכתך האמיצה בזכותו של העם היהודי להנציח את זכרון אלו אשר נפלו על יהדותם.
זוהי הזכות המשותפת לנו, בני העם הכורדי ובני העם היהודי, אשר היא צוואת אבותינו עליה אנו חייבים להילחם ללא חת.
Thank you President Nechirvan Barzani for your courageous support for the right of the Jewish people to commemorate those who fell for their Judaism
This is our common right, of the Kurdish people and of the Jewish people, which is the will of our ancestors that we must fights on fearlessly.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, we honor the 6,000,000 Jews murdered for being Jewish.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Wikipedia The Atomic Bomb Dome can be seen through the center of the arch.
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS—Here is America's only soldier to ever receive Israel’s highest honor conferred on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. On this day 77 years ago, facing the threat of immediate execution, he and his men displayed an act of courage and character that exemplifies what it means to take a stand against evil.
US Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, the “Golden Lions”, was captured by German forces at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. A native of Knoxville, TN, Edmonds was 25 years old. He had only been on the front line for five days when his unit was overrun.
Edmonds' captors marched him east where he was transferred to Stalag IX-A, a camp for enlisted personnel just east of Bonn, Germany. As the senior noncommissioned officer at the camp, Edmonds found himself responsible for 1,275 American POWs.
On January 27, 1945, the Camp Commandant ordered Edmonds to assemble all the Jewish-American soldiers so they could be separated from the other prisoners.
Defiantly, Edmonds assembled all 1,275 American POWs.
Furious, the German commandant walked quickly up to Edmonds, placed a pistol against Edmonds' forehead, and demanded that he identify the Jewish soldiers within the ranks.
Edmonds, a keen and dedicated Baptist, responded sternly, "We are all Jews here."
Edmonds then warned the commandant that if he wanted to shoot the Jews, he'd have to shoot everyone, and that if he harmed any of Edmonds' men, the commandant would be prosecuted for war crimes when Germany lost. Edmonds then recited that the Geneva Conventions required POWs to give only their name, rank, and serial number, not their religion.
The commandant backed down.
Edmonds' actions are credited with saving 200 Jewish-American soldiers from being murdered. He survived 100 days of captivity, and returned home after the war, but kept the event at the POW camp to himself. He never told anyone. Edmonds later served in Korea.
It was only after Edmonds’ death in 1985 and the review of his diaries by his son that his story came to light. Jewish-American POWs, including Sonny Fox who after the war became an executive with NBC. He verified the story as did other POWs who were glad to share. The State of Israel declared Edmonds “Righteous Among the Nations” in 2015.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As we pause to remember the 6 million Jews and 11 million others murdered at the hand of their captors, we also commend all Allied Veterans who helped bring the tyranny of the Third Reich to an end. Master Sergeant Edmonds and the 1,275 American soldiers who stood defiantly with him on this day were a part of that story. We are the benefactors, and we pause to give our thanks. All The Way and more.
Photo, courtesy of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and The Rev. Chris Edmonds. #WeRemember #WeShareToRemember #holocaust #onthisday #neveragain #HolocaustMemorialDay #HolocaustRemembranceDay
Today I have tried something I haven't done for years, Me shaved....I don't like it and these are the only pics you will see of me like that!
On 24 March 2018 In DC and other cities, hundreds of thousands of students and others marched to demand common sense gun control in the wake of deadly school shootings in the U.S.
Emma Gonzalez schools us all.
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Proud Kurdish History - The Sumerians from Babylonia
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Bhagat Singh (28/09/1907, Banga, Punjab, British India – 23/03/1931, Lahore, Punjab, British India) was an Indian revolutionary, political thinker and socialist, and one of the most iconic figures of the anti-colonial struggle against British rule in India. He was born into a Sikh family deeply involved in the independence movement. His father Kishan Singh and his uncle Ajit Singh were active nationalists who had already faced imprisonment and exile for their political activities. From childhood, Bhagat Singh grew up surrounded by discussions about freedom, resistance and sacrifice, absorbing the idea that liberation was a moral duty. As a boy he was profoundly shaken by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, when British troops opened fire on unarmed civilians in Amritsar, killing hundreds. This event marked him for life and strengthened his resolve to fight colonial oppression. He studied in Lahore, first at the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School and later at the National College, founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, where he immersed himself in revolutionary literature, Marxist thought, anarchism and anti-imperialist philosophy. He became convinced that political independence without social justice would be meaningless, and that true freedom required the overthrow of both colonial rule and systems of exploitation. In his youth he joined and helped organize revolutionary groups, including the Naujawan Bharat Sabha and later the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, aiming to mobilize young people for radical change. In 1928, after Lala Lajpat Rai died from injuries inflicted by British police during a protest against the Simon Commission, Bhagat Singh and his comrades decided to avenge the killing. Together with Rajguru and Sukhdev, he took part in the assassination of British officer J.P. Saunders, whom they believed responsible for the assault on Rai. In 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw low-intensity bombs inside the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi. The bombs were deliberately non-lethal; their purpose was symbolic: to protest repressive colonial laws and to use the courtroom as a platform to speak directly to the people. They courted arrest and used the trial to expose the violence and hypocrisy of British rule. While in prison, Bhagat Singh led a prolonged hunger strike demanding equal rights and humane treatment for political prisoners, further increasing his popularity among the Indian masses. He openly identified as a socialist and wrote extensively on revolution, atheism, and the need for mass political consciousness. The British colonial government charged him with the murder of Saunders and sentenced him to death. On 23 March 1931, at the age of 23, Bhagat Singh was hanged in Lahore together with Rajguru and Sukhdev. His execution was widely seen as a political act intended to crush revolutionary momentum. Instead, it turned Bhagat Singh into a legend. He became a symbol of fearless resistance, intellectual courage and uncompromising struggle for freedom. To this day, he is remembered as Shaheed-e-Azam, the Great Martyr, and as a global icon of anti-imperialist resistance.
At 8:15am on 6th August 1945, the first atomic bomb in human history was dropped on Hiroshima. Although, the Atomic Bomb Dome was located almost directly underneath the explosion, it somehow avoided complete destruction and the remains of the building still stand today. The residents of Hiroshima decided to keep this tragic reminder of war intact. The site was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1996. Visit the Atomic Bomb Dome, the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to gain a deeper understanding of the suffering caused by war and nuclear weapons and the true value of peace.
(LoD) Level of Detail - Green Island Loft for The Neighbourhood 24/1/15
Taken at LoD - Exalted - Final Chapter - NSP [Muse] - Paper Flowers, Never Again (241, 84, 1358)
Washington, D.C. | Saturday, March 24, 2018 | A series of photographs documenting the "March For Our Lives" rallies that took place in the nations capitol and all over the globe.
Seattle Library, Washington. Escalators are just so much fun, I can't help myself! A couple of the other shots featuring the escalator, an alure similar to gas pumps! I always look for an interesting SC, but no more this tricky - at least for a bit!
"I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words..." / "Vi prego di credere a ciò che ho detto a proposito di Buchenwald. Ho riferito quello che ho visto e sentito, ma solo una parte di ciò. Per la maggior parte io non ho parole...". Edward R. Murrow - American broadcast journalist
... "Los ojos que han contemplado Auschwitz e Hiroshima nunca podrán contemplar a Dios" ... (Ernest Hemingway)
... "The eyes that have contemplated Auschwitz and Hiroshima, will never be able to contemplate to God" ... (Ernest Hemingway)
... son muchos los ESCENARIOS donde se ha demostrado (y se sigue DEMOSTRANDO) que los Seres Humanos somos capaces de lo MEJOR y de lo PEOR ... recordar NUESTRO lado OSCURO ha de servir para decir NO!!! ... NUNCA MAS!!! ... porque NADA ni NADIE puede SEGUIR justificando el asesinato indiscriminado, las políticas de tierra quemada o el exterminio de aquellos que no son o que no piensan como nosotros!!! ... y DESGRACIADAMENTE sigue OCURRIENDO ... incluso en el NOMBRE de DIOS!!! =:o(
... there are many SCENARIOS where it has been shown (and continue DEMONSTRATING) that Human Beings are capable of the BEST and WORST ... remember OUR DARK side serve to say NO!!! ... NEVER AGAIN!!! ... because NOTHING neither NOBODY can FOLLOW justify the indiscriminate killing, the policies of scorched earth or the systematic extermination of those who are not like us or who do not think like us!!! ... and UNFORTUNATELY continues OCCURRING ... even in the NAME of GOD!!! =:o(
... Serie: "Oscuridades! / ... Serie: "Darks"
... Museo Judío de Berlín - ... en este espacio el sentimiento de horror y desolación es absoluto ... la cara oscura del Ser Humano ...
... Jewish Museum of Berlin - ... in this space, the feel of the horror and desolation is absolute ... the dark side of Human Being ...
Some photos I took during a March for Our Lives rally in Sebastian,Florida. I will be posting several of these with the text from the signs.
*End Gun Violence*
*Enough Is Enough*
View of the entrance to the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). The gate bears the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work makes one free).
Auschwitz began as a concentration camp in 1940 for Polish political prisoners. Then the Nazis began to deport to the camp people from all the countries they conquered, mainly Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies, Czechs, Slavs and others. The site was selected because of the convenient rail lines with spurs coming directly into the camp.
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